paraphrastic

American  

[par-uh-fras-tik] / ˌpær əˈfræs tɪk /

adjective

1. having the nature of a paraphrase.

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Other Word Forms

• paraphrastically adverb

Etymology

Origin of paraphrastic

1615–25; < Medieval Latin paraphrasticus < Greek paraphrastikós. See paraphrast, -ic

Example Sentences

This mental capacity is most likely to be acquired by the regular and persevering use of the paraphrastic exercise.

From A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education by Gall, James

Commentaries and translations are numerous in German and in English; the translations by Denis Florence MacCarthy are the most satisfactory, Edward Fitzgerald's being too paraphrastic.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley

Hill was apparently the first to prove the esthetic loss in such a practice by an analysis of particular paraphrastic expansions.

From 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation by Pahl, Gretchen Graf

Bartholomew also supplied the words of "Hear my Prayer," "which," he says, "its dear and lamented author composed for my paraphrastic version of the 55th Psalm."

From The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio "Elijah" by Edwards, Frederick George

To this opinion we shall the rather incline, if we attend to another paraphrastic interpretation.

From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Lord, Eleazar